I know this isn't strictly about PC gaming. But Desktops are what make our PCs ours. They are our blank canvas. Our feature wall to be changed at the drop of a hat or take hours setting up perfectly. To be as basic as you want. Or to be customised to a blink of its existence.This is mine (http://i.imgur.com/zIhx1.jpg). Before you ask, yes it's double monitors. And no they are not the same size.

But anyway. Fellow RPS'ers What does your desktop look like?

coldvvvave

25-01-2012, 10:40 PM

http://i.imgur.com/8qQF7l.jpg (http://imgur.com/8qQF7)

Kaira-

25-01-2012, 10:49 PM

652653

Linux and Windows-puters respectively.

Kodeen

25-01-2012, 10:57 PM

Wallpaper is a screenshot from Gothic 3
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DigitalSignalX

25-01-2012, 10:59 PM

@coldvvvave too busy! (=

I installed Fences a couple of days ago so I can clean up all the icons (=

Too lazy to take a screenshot, but it is a collection of random work files, defender's quest and spirit engine 2 installers, leftover shortcuts to Bashi Blocks and Minecraft, some schubert and schumann song clips, and a .zip of these chiptunes (http://www.last.fm/music/Jay+Tholen/The+Old+Testament) based on the Old Testament. Here is the wallpaper, though:

That was a fun night, trapped in Parliament Square / on Westminster Bridge for about 10 hours...

AlonePlusEasyTarget

26-01-2012, 01:14 PM

http://i.imgur.com/ljdajl.jpg

Wiith Fences, all those icons will be gone by double mouse clicks.

The Tupper

26-01-2012, 02:01 PM

@coldvvvave too busy! (=

I installed Fences a couple of days ago so I can clean up all the icons (=

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/8003/56877482.jpg

Indeed. Fences, lovely Fences. Now my desktop is the sleek, Tardis-blue wonder that I'd always wanted but could never manage thanks to my inherent messiness.

If only there was a version for my real life desktop.

Which, on reflection, is probably the single most facile, predictable thing anyone has ever said after installing Fences - similar to someone saying "wouldn't it be great if all this money was real?" while playing Monopoly. Bah.

coldvvvave

26-01-2012, 02:36 PM

No Shame here.

X-com: Enforcer?

ZamFear

26-01-2012, 02:56 PM

I generate mine with Chaoscope (http://www.chaoscope.org/). This is the work computer.
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Rii

26-01-2012, 02:56 PM

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7052/desktopjan2012.png

Jams O'Donnell

26-01-2012, 02:59 PM

Ooh, Fences is rather good isn't it? I'm glad y'all were talking about it.

Fede

26-01-2012, 04:09 PM

This is the full image, I see it cropped at 1024*600 most of the time.
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slick_101

26-01-2012, 04:30 PM

it is rather weird, I would of expected more people to be using things like Rainmeter and Rocket dock like I am. But I admit, I am one of those fences guys! but if you just wanted to hide your icons you could just right click on your desktop, clicked view and then "show/hide desktop icons".

squareking

26-01-2012, 05:24 PM

Rii, you should do something about the petroleum jelly on your screen.

Arona Daal

26-01-2012, 06:16 PM

X-com: Enforcer?

My dark Passion.

buemba

26-01-2012, 08:34 PM

I just rotate between the default Win7 wallpapers and avoid putting any icons on it.

(of course it's nearly completely covered with icons at the moment, but that's what view->show desktop icons is for)
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn97/zookeeperv/desktop-1.png

ZamFear

27-01-2012, 02:07 AM

The home computer:
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DigitalSignalX

27-01-2012, 04:35 AM

Nasa posted (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2159.html) (link to article) an 8000x8000 HD version of earth (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/618486main_earth_full.jpg) (warning, big file). I wish I had a monitor that could post it as background without scaling (=

This is my XFCE desktop (I can't be bothered to reboot now for the Win7 one):

http://i.imgur.com/PnUX5.jpg

Odeon

27-01-2012, 07:48 PM

Nasa posted (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2159.html) (link to article) an 8000x8000 HD version of earth (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/618486main_earth_full.jpg) (warning, big file). I wish I had a monitor that could post it as background without scaling (=
In full HD (1920 x 1080) that image is 4.17 screens wide by 7.41 screens tall (with the taskbar hidden). That would be a rather large monitor! My monitor is 18.875" wide by 10.4375" tall (21.5" diagonal), so an LCD of the same capabilities (but full 8000 x 8000 resolution) would have to be 78.71" (6.56 feet) square, or 111.31" (9.28') diagonal!

Nasa has a lot of nice Pictures:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
I'd forgotten about the NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day page. I was saving my favorites for use as desktop images for a long time at work, then changed jobs and forgot to go back. But I still have tons of images of galaxies, nebula, the planets, asteroids, and a wide range of astronomical images that I've been moving from drive to drive. I occasionally even choose the overall folder of images (which I've sorted into sub-folders by type) for my background and/or photo screensaver, but right now they're all just sitting idle. And now that you've reminded me of the site, I'm going to have to kill several hours going through the ones I've missed over the past few years and saving more images!

Anywhat, here's my current desktop:
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It's busier than usual because I've got a backlog of sites/videos/etc. to look through from while I was in school. I don't like it that busy, so I'm going to be clearing out nearly all of the Chrome bookmarks, but the rest will stay.

Wizardry

27-01-2012, 07:49 PM

There's a surprising lack of boobs on your desktops. I'm guessing you are all married.

Nalano

27-01-2012, 07:57 PM

There's a surprising lack of boobs on your desktops. I'm guessing you are all married.

Hard to convince girlfriends that you're a classy guy if you leave softcore porn everywhere.

Building demolished for another soulless condo filled with yuppies, hipsters and eurotrash.

Althea

27-01-2012, 10:13 PM

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6904/wallpaper27th.jpg

PeteC

27-01-2012, 10:21 PM

Never heard of Fences but I use Iconoid to autohide my icons. Just click anywhere on the desktop to show them again.

Tei

27-01-2012, 11:10 PM

Since 1998 (or like that) I have always used the desktop settings for everything. :/

So I have nothing to show, other than a default Windows 7 desktop, with default background image. Not even the icons on the desktop are interesting. As I don't use that for anything, is just a mix of miscelanea.

Maybe I sould change, and use something like Althea image as background. I like cats.

PeopleLikeFrank

27-01-2012, 11:35 PM

Building demolished for another soulless condo filled with yuppies, hipsters and eurotrash.

:c

I'm not in NYC very often, but I liked Mars Bar.

Pertusaria

28-01-2012, 12:31 AM

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Mine's really boring - I rarely spend much time there, so I don't notice. The icons are a few different games and music-related stuff, mainly. Win 7.

My physical desktop is always incredibly messy, though - I don't know what it is, I just have no ability to keep my workspace tidy outside of a lab.

Dubbill

28-01-2012, 01:15 AM

Work comp / play comp
Yay for Achewood!

I usually use something from http://simpledesktops.com/browse/29/. I like an unfussy background.

DarkNoghri

28-01-2012, 02:44 AM

My desktop rotates through a whole slew of images. Most of them are pulled from this gallery: http://orioto.deviantart.com/gallery/6943610

Annoyingly, he has disabled the downloads for some of the full-size versions, meaning that you have to follow more links to get to a proper download.

Other pictures include some of the Stalker concept art posted on RPS somewhat recently, as well as a Minecraft creeper picture (That's a very nice everything you have there....).

Editing with current desktop:
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/darknoghri/th_desktop.jpg (http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/darknoghri/desktop.jpg)

How can I be wrong about liking something? I like it, that's a fact. You don't necessarily have to like it yourself, but I'm certainly not "wrong".

That was the joke. =/

karthink

31-01-2012, 03:35 PM

http://i.imgur.com/9SdPAl.png (http://imgur.com/9SdPA)

Althea

31-01-2012, 03:39 PM

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4928/wallpaper31st.jpg

amusingthebrood

31-01-2012, 06:46 PM

There's a surprising lack of boobs on your desktops. I'm guessing you are all married.

None here either, but my wife still tells me off. And to be fair, she is right to do so; my claim that it is aspirational rather than objectification is probably nonsense.

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Tikey

31-01-2012, 07:09 PM

My work computer. My home pc has a picture of the GF but It could also have the security variant of this wallpaper.

Odeon

01-02-2012, 12:11 AM

There's a surprising lack of boobs on your desktops. I'm guessing you are all married.
Very much so, yes. Plus I have two impressionable sons, so...

Even before I got married though, it always seemed too over-the-top to have a pic of bewbs on my desktop so I only did it for a short time when I was in my very early 20s.

Until y'day, my desktop background was:
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_images/WISE2012-001-lg.jpg (Normalish size)
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_images/WISE2012-001-xl.jpg (70mb and 66megapixels of pure beauty <3)
Huuuu, that IS a beauty of an image! I've yoinked it of course, but what part of the sky is that? It looks kind of like a Hubble Deep Field but with stars instead of galaxies.

Here's mine.

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8/37790222.th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/515/37790222.jpg/)
That's a cool image, I like the idea of a slice of shoreline pie. ;-)

None here either, but my wife still tells me off. And to be fair, she is right to do so; my claim that it is aspirational rather than objectification is probably nonsense.

719
Your wife tells you off for having a dude on your desktop? What am I missing here?

And this isn't actually being used, but because someone mentioned nerd-wallpapers.
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message is too short

Danny252

05-02-2012, 09:38 PM

And this isn't actually being used, but because someone mentioned nerd-wallpapers.

You know you do too much maths when you know the meaning and usage of all the symbols on that page, and use them regularly. I might have to get myself one of those degree-radian circles one day, though...

New background, swapping to my other, non-astronomical, theme:

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Odeon

06-02-2012, 09:35 PM

Nothing nearly as deep. It covers Cassiopeia and Cephus - the original description (and a labelled image) is at http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_fireworks.html
Sweet, thanks for the link.

I'm using the 45 images that came with Windows 7 xDark Deluxe 4.3 (http://h33t.com/details.php?id=a54a67b5f10a70f1fb31ec0459507acde60 7546a), but my wallpaper folder has over 4200 images to flip through. The NASA sub-folder alone has nearly 700 images. 8-P

Skalpadda

06-02-2012, 10:25 PM

Too lazy to upload a screenshot, but here's the current wallpaper:
http://frozenbyte-backup.com/trine_2/screenshots/Trine_2_2011_Oct_012_720p.jpg

That's a lot of graphics cards in one computer.
Apparently it has a digital version, too.

Danny252

08-02-2012, 03:47 PM

Apparently it has a digital version, too.

I'd be happy just getting my computers delivered on disc, really.

Berzee

08-02-2012, 03:53 PM

I used to use that "Do Your Work, Don't Be Stupid" wallpaper all the time, Wolfenswan :D
(mixed with a liberal helping of Keep Calm and Carry On).

siegarettes

08-02-2012, 04:20 PM

Its a terrible, horrible mess.

A terrible horrible--hey is that Gordon Freeman?

PeteC

08-02-2012, 05:38 PM

Here's mine. Icons hidden by using Iconoid - I like a tidy desktop (Or the illusion of one anyway. It's an unholy mess really, hence why I like to hide them)

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siegarettes

09-02-2012, 04:16 AM

it is rather weird, I would of expected more people to be using things like Rainmeter and Rocket dock like I am. But I admit, I am one of those fences guys! but if you just wanted to hide your icons you could just right click on your desktop, clicked view and then "show/hide desktop icons".

I considered installing fences again, since they are pretty convenient, and my laptop's icons tend to be all jumbled up when I move from my at home resolution to my laptops on the go rez.

Did they ever fix that problem with the icons falling out of the fences on Win 7?

Chevy

09-02-2012, 04:18 AM

Did they ever fix that problem with the icons falling out of the fences on Win 7?

Nope, still happens to me fairly often.

magnolia_fan

10-02-2012, 08:30 PM

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6904/wallpaper27th.jpg

Tangled!!! *likes*

Back to subject, this is my desktop. It's a dual screen setup, no icons on desktop but many on the "super bar" including my 3d apps.

Mihkel, is that from the same guy that did the Guild Wars art? Forgot his name but love his work.

Kadayi

12-02-2012, 04:29 PM

Yeah it'd Daniel Dociu. His work is top notch.

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/media/concept-art/

Capt. Eduardo del Mango

12-02-2012, 09:14 PM

Ooh, go on, here's mine.

Kadayi

12-02-2012, 10:25 PM

Ooh, go on, here's mine.

Seven samurai, nice.

Odeon

13-02-2012, 07:48 PM

I hear very little discussion of Seven Samurai these days, so it's nice to see a simple but cool wallpaper homage to it.

neema_t

13-02-2012, 08:06 PM

816

This spans two 1680x1050 monitors on my desk. The CRX wasn't my favourite spot from the weekend I spent at the Nürburgring but this was one of the few photos I took that really worked when cropped like that. I really need to tidy my desktop again because it looks so much nicer like that. I think I might look through my photos and find a new panorama actually. In case you're wondering this was taken with an EOS 5D with a 200mm f2.8L lens, which I no longer have... Sold to fund my PC build!

Oh and my PC's desktop is the W7 default, because I use my PC like this:
Press power button
Enter password
Click on Steam icon
Click game
Click play
-or-
Click Safari (yeah, and?)
Type 'battlelog.battlefield.com' into address bar
Etc
Play
Exit
Turn off PC.

Also Seven Samurai, nice. I'm literally right on the edge of watching that, I just need to find 3 spare hours, make sure no one else is home, kill this bloody bird that will not stop screaming and somehow silence some guinea pigs. I'm thinking cotton pad slippers.

Odeon

13-02-2012, 08:25 PM

Nice shot!

For watching Seven Samurai, maybe you should get some of those wireless headphones, but even more important is paying close attention to the sub-titles. Unless you understand Japanese, that is.

Althea

17-02-2012, 11:37 PM

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2349/wallpaper17th.jpg

Official Dredmor wallpaper. I'm happy.

Tei

17-02-2012, 11:41 PM

I could that that image. Go back to 1976, and start selling box with nethack in it, using this art on the box. I would end more rich than jesus, and would turn the world a bit crazy. Is a art that has his own definition of epic.

Althea

17-02-2012, 11:45 PM

But she's a she, she's wide-hipped with thick legs and no cleavage on display. You can't have her on boxart.

Nalano

18-02-2012, 12:31 AM

But she's a she, she's wide-hipped with thick legs and no cleavage on display. You can't have her on boxart.

And those eyebrows...!

But don't discount those wide hips and thick legs. People out there have dwarf fetishes, after all.

Mihkel

18-02-2012, 09:58 AM

And those eyebrows...!

These are bricks man.

veljaaa

18-02-2012, 03:05 PM

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Mostly nature wallpapers like these (about 100 of them, on slideshow), a weather widget, Winamp, and a Recycle Bin. I like to keep it clean. Everything I need is in the Start menu. :)

Althea

28-02-2012, 10:58 PM

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/5387/wallpaper28th.jpg

Memph

28-02-2012, 11:14 PM

886

more aero. i haven't actually modded windows since XP.

gganate

29-02-2012, 05:12 PM

894Let me in, dammit!

gganate

29-02-2012, 05:14 PM

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/5387/wallpaper28th.jpg
I don't know who that is, but she looks like she could be the next protagonist in a new Thief game.

Althea

29-02-2012, 05:16 PM

I don't know who that is, but she looks like she could be the next protagonist in a new Thief game.
She's too busy being the protagonist in FunCom's The Longest Journey series and a major character in their Dreamfall one.

Danny252

29-02-2012, 05:17 PM

Mostly nature wallpapers like these (about 100 of them, on slideshow)

What do people here use for slideshow-y desktops? I've only ever been able to find "this doesn't support anything since Windows 98" and "Definately doesn't come crammed with spyware or viruses or trojans or mouldy bread. Honest. Ignore the fact this is from a .cc domain" as options for this in the past.

Althea

29-02-2012, 05:24 PM

What do people here use for slideshow-y desktops?
I use Win 7's in-built function.

Can't remember the name of the program I used in XP, though.

Tritagonist

29-02-2012, 05:44 PM

What do people here use for slideshow-y desktops?

I'm using DisplayFusion (http://www.displayfusion.com/), though mainly for it's multi-monitor features. As far as your request goes; it allows you to queue up wallpapers and/or entire folders, set a duration after which it will switch to a new wallpaper, which it can do randomly or on alphabetic order. It sadly doesn't allow you to rotate the images based on the system clock, but apparently this program (http://www.nuonsoft.com/wallpapercycler/)does, though I haven't tried that.

Ravelle

29-02-2012, 10:10 PM

I use Win 7's in-built function.

Can't remember the name of the program I used in XP, though.

Also this, Windows 7's built in function works great, using it on my laptop at this time.

Danny252

29-02-2012, 10:53 PM

Also this, Windows 7's built in function works great, using it on my laptop at this time.

Ah, that'd be it - I've yet to find a reason (and/or large pile of monies) to upgrade from Vista.

I'm using DisplayFusion (http://www.displayfusion.com/), though mainly for it's multi-monitor features

I'll take a looksee, I do use 2 monitors most of the time, so I might find something else of use as a bonus

Edit: Also, OT:
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Tei

29-02-2012, 10:58 PM

She's too busy being the protagonist in FunCom's The Longest Journey series and a major character in their Dreamfall one.

The character of that adventure game is one of the most likeable character ever. I know most of it is calculated, but I like it anyway.

Althea

29-02-2012, 11:05 PM

The character of that adventure game is one of the most likeable character ever. I know most of it is calculated, but I like it anyway.
Yup. Sarah Hamilton is arguably a better voice actress than Jennifer Hale based on April alone.

Sarlix

29-02-2012, 11:47 PM

Nothing very exciting.

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4812/dt4h.png

Labbes

01-03-2012, 11:45 AM

Sarlix, that's really pretty. Could I get a source?

Tritagonist

01-03-2012, 12:31 PM

Labbes, the Oneiric Ocelot wallpapers can be found here (bottom of the first post): http://gbatemp.net/topic/310349-ubuntu-1110-onieric-ocelot-hype-thread/

Labbes

01-03-2012, 12:40 PM

Thanks. Reminds me that I should really install Linux again...

Sarlix

01-03-2012, 03:53 PM

Sorry for the late response & thanks for the link Tritagonist.

Here is a direct link to the wallpaper if anyone else is interested and another nice reworked ununtu one.

which as a francophone who took german classes, I feel very affected :p

I keep meaning to find some homeworld concept art to to add to the background but I never seem to find the time :(

Nova

03-03-2012, 11:23 AM

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2343/zwischenablage1p.jpg

Althea

08-03-2012, 02:03 PM

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1539/wallpaper8th.jpg

Edlennion

08-03-2012, 02:53 PM

Here's mine:937

slick_101

08-03-2012, 02:59 PM

this be my shiny new one: 938

Kadayi

08-03-2012, 03:59 PM

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58657528/Brush%20test%20I%20020212.jpg

Latest one. Started off as a test for some new abstract Photoshop brushes I've been making (you can never have enough), but I liked where it went in terms of the colours.

slick_101

08-03-2012, 04:12 PM

Kadayi, as you are able to use Photoshop properly rather than having it just because you can (like me). Would you be able to make a wall paper similar to the one I just posted (I've been using it for a good few weeks and I'm bored of it) and the one you have just posted, using a mixture of blues and shades of black/grey/white?

westyfield

08-03-2012, 05:05 PM

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58657528/Brush%20test%20I%20020212.jpg

Latest one. Started off as a test for some new abstract Photoshop brushes I've been making (you can never have enough), but I liked where it went in terms of the colours.

So, let's play the Rorschach game. I see a red V-22 Osprey flying over a load of small islands.
Bonus round: when looking at the cards of the Rorschach test, card 10 (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Rorschach_blot_10.jpg) reminded me of something from a game. Any guesses?
My current desktop. (http://i.imgur.com/CAEEf.png)

Kadayi

08-03-2012, 08:21 PM

Kadayi, as you are able to use Photoshop properly rather than having it just because you can (like me). Would you be able to make a wall paper similar to the one I just posted (I've been using it for a good few weeks and I'm bored of it) and the one you have just posted, using a mixture of blues and shades of black/grey/white?

Certainly I could. However anything decent takes time, and that's not something I have a lot of unfortunately at present. My recommendation would be to browse deviant art: -

http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/wallpaper/

and check out the abstract, minimal and fractal groups. You can find some real nice wallpapers there like this for instance: -

So, let's play the Rorschach game. I see a red V-22 Osprey flying over a load of small islands.
Bonus round: when looking at the cards of the Rorschach test, card 10 (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Rorschach_blot_10.jpg) reminded me of something from a game. Any guesses?
My current desktop. (http://i.imgur.com/CAEEf.png)

Krogan, at a guess.

westyfield

09-03-2012, 12:14 AM

Krogan, at a guess.

Reaper! The grey blob at the top. Although now you mention it, I kinda see a Krogan as well. Interesting...

scruffylemming

09-03-2012, 01:49 AM

This has been mine for the last 4 or 5 months, I cant stand clutter on my desktop hence hiding everything on a dock at the bottom of the screen.

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Squiz

09-03-2012, 01:31 PM

Reaper! The grey blob at the top. Although now you mention it, I kinda see a Krogan as well. Interesting...Yeah, I can see that. But why on earth would you want to look at the Rorschach test?

Kadayi

09-03-2012, 02:38 PM

This has been mine for the last 4 or 5 months, I cant stand clutter on my desktop hence hiding everything on a dock at the bottom of the screen.

944

http://www.impulsedriven.com/fences

double click..hides all your icons

westyfield

09-03-2012, 02:38 PM

Yeah, I can see that. But why on earth would you want to look at the Rorschach test?

I was looking up the spelling (my mind still tries to say 'rorscharch') and ended up on Wikipedia. It's got the ten cards and the most common answers there, along with what they supposedly mean.